The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-01
In Brief

Licenses to marry were issued yesterday to
James P. Lindsay and Mary \. King, William
I. Hill and Jennie Hill
The contract for the ninety three mantels and
crates for the new asyums at Richmond, Logan
sport and Evansville has been awarded to Will
lam Terrell, of this city.
The monthly meeting of the Tippecanoe Club
Will be held in the Mayors court room to NOR
row afternoon. at o'clock, when Rev Van
Buskirk will address the club on 1.-The Effect
1910 Has Over the Present Time"
Frank Surry was standing in a crowd of men
surrounding patent-medicine verder on the
corner of Delaware and Washington streets;
yesterday morning, when a gold watch and
chain were taken out of his pocket.
In consequence of the large increase in the
Meridian street NJ E. Sunday school, the school
will have a general jubilee on next Sunday
morning, at the usual hour for church services.
The programme will be varied and interesting,
consisting of music and short addresses by sew
eral prominent speakers
CHARGED WITH STEALING A CHILD
Catherine Wickwith, who is wanted for trial
at South Bend on the charge of stealing the five
year-old daughter of man named La Pant. has
been found in Michigan, and requisition for
her surrender to the authorities of St Joseph
county was issued yesterday by the Governor.
DENTAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
The eighth annual commencement of the Indi-
ana Dental College will occur tomorrow evening
in the lecture-room of the college, in the 4Etna
Block. Fourteen young gen lemen will gradu-
ate Mr. Wells will deliver an address on be-
half of the trustees, and Dr. j. Fl. Olivier will ad-
dress the students on behalf Of the faculty. The
diplomas will be presented by President ". L..
Heishell
GAS COMPANIES INCORPORATED YESTERDAY.
Only two natural gas companies were in
corporated yesterday. One is located at Law
oobu MI 0T 8i
with Ambrose Z. Hawln j. H. Bnkham. VIM.
H. OBrien, Jacob NJ. Bauer Valentine Koehler,
Warren Tebbs, Chris Samuel, c. B. Miller and
George NJ. Roberts as directors The other is
located at Butler, DeI<alb county. Its capital
stock is $4,000 and the directors are Frank
Reynolds Samuel G. Stone, Henry Aldrich, A.
G. James and A. j. Mason.
SHOT AT HIS WIFE.
Charles Hunter. with his wife and several
children, lives at No 6 Greenwood street. Last
evening Mr., Hunter went home drunk and
quarreled with his wife. The quarrel was re-
newed at the supper table and when she said
something that dspleased him he drew from his
pocket revolver and shot at her three times
without hitting her. He then left the house.
and Mrs. Hunter said nothing about the diff
| Guilty until the night policemen came on duty
They at once began to search for Hunter. At
l o'clock they had not found him.
MR.. DE PAUw's NEW BUILDING.
For two years Washington DePauw, of New
Albany, has been contemplating the erection Of
a new Bank of Commerce Building on the site
of the present building, at the intersection of
Washington and Pennsylvania streets and Vir-
cinia avenue. Recently ne had R. P. Daggett
| Il Co, architects. prepare plans for new
structure, and yesterday he accepted one
of their plans and let the contract for
! tho wood-wc TO Salisbury & Stanley, of this
| city. and the brck-work to John Martin The
building will be four stories high and will cost
| 800 600. 1t will be built out to the point, and
consequently will cover one third more ground
| than the present structure. The contractors
vii! begin al once to tear away the old building,
| which one Of the finest and at one time con
sidered one Of the most magnificent in the city.
THE CARPENTERS FAIL TO AGREE,
| A committee from the iourneymen carpenters
attended the meeting of the master carpenters,
at the Builders Exchange, last night and re
ported that the journeymen had agreed to the
following scale of wages, to go into effect April
| /: For best workmen. % cents per hour for bes,
men; for inferior workmen according to grade
| 22a, 20 ana III cents. AS to the number OF
hours to be worked, they reported that journey
men had agreed to work but nine hours
and would accept no other proposition. The
journeymen then withdrew, and after consider
able discussion, the master workmen decided t.
| not alter their proposition for ten hours. They
agreed to this because they had information
! that the majority of the journeymen in the city
| desired TO work ten hours There are abou
nine hundred journeymen carpenters in the city
and only 315 have SO far signed the petition fol
| nine hours. The master workmen decided not
to meet any more and to consider no more com
municatons from the journeymen
| PROCEEDINGS OF THE ALDERMEN
The regular meeting of the Board Of Alder
men last evening was brief, the session lasting
only half an hour The Council resolution au
thorizinc the transfer of the mill race bridge OF
| West Washington street to the State avenue
crossing of Crooked run was concurred in. TIL,
ordinance appropriating So. 900 for the use o
the street department was passed under sus
pension of the rules. The folio wing improve
ment ordinances were finally passed.:
To grade and bowlder the cutters and widen the
sidewalks of Delaware street. between Seventh an
Eighth streets.
To pave the east sidewalk of College avenue frou
Home avenue to Seventh street
To grade and gravel the first alley south of Nc